He is thought to be the ringleader of an international botnet group called A-Team, and has been named as a co-conspirator in a large-scale cyber attack in the United States.

Further suspects were spoken to in Northland and Canterbury, but Waikato Crime Services Manager, Detective Inspector Peter Devoy says it appears that those were victims rather than co-conspirators.

AKILL is alleged to have been one of those behind a concentrated DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack at a Philadelphia university in February last year.